AMAZING: Details Of Cory Booker's Rescue Of A Woman From A Burning Building Last Night

Newark's mayor Cory Booker is being considered a hero this
morning after rescuing a woman last night who was trapped in a
house engulfed in flames.

According to the Star-Ledger, Booker -- the mayor of
New Jersey's largest city -- arrived at his home Thursday night
following a television interview with News 12.

At the time, he was accompanied by two members of his security
detail. Another security team member was already at his
home keeping watch in his absence.

Right before the mayor arrived at his home, the two-story
building next-door on Hawthorne Avenue in the Upper Clinton Hill
neighborhood had just caught on fire, the report said. The
security detail who was already at his home, Detective Alex Rodriguez, noticed the fire first.

There were no emergency responders present at the time and the
residents of the home were not outside, so Booker and his
security team alerted the residents to make sure everyone got
out, the report said.

Booker
told the Star-Ledger that he and his team thought he got
everyone out of the house, but a woman was screaming that she was
still trapped upstairs.

Detective Rodriguez tried to stop Booker from re-entering the
inferno, but he did anyway.

Booker told CBS News "This Morning" that at first he couldn't
find her through all the smoke and flames and at that point he
thought he wouldn't get out alive, but "thankfully" the woman
started yelling and he was able to pull her from her
bedroom.

"I was not gentle and I just sort of threw her over my shoulder
and dragged her through the kitchen, which that was my
fear. I didn't think we would be able to get out through
that kitchen...I punched through the kitchen in the flames saw
Detective Rodriquez he grabbed her as well and we got her down
the stairs and we both sort of collapsed outside the building,"
Booker told CBS "This Morning" in an interview.

The mayor was taken to the hospital and treated for smoke
inhalation and a second-degree burn on his hand, the report
said. He was later released and is expected to give a press
conference today at 10 a.m. from his home.